Upper Norfolk News Today

As a brief introduction, I am Chick Hill and my family, friends and I have enjoyed visiting Park City as second-home owners for over 40 years. I spent 33 years as an industrial engineer and developer/manager...

Under the military government instituted by Sir Thomas Dale after he arrived in Virginia in May 1611, military commanders were responsible for civil administration and local defense in the old and new Virginia settlements. Dale established at least five settlements by early in the 1610s, located from the present-day Richmond area to the Eastern Shore. Because no ecclesiastical courts existed in the colony, the governor and his Council proved and recorded wills and settled the estates of people ...